It’s a painting of a popular spot on the Lower East Side — with a twist. 

“What struck me at first was that these yellow pendant lights sort of play like music notes on sheet music,” artist Charis Ammon said about her painting of the Clinton Street Baking Company on Houston Street.

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Brooklyn-based artist Charis Ammon has an exhibition of her oil paintings — called Pedestrian — at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery in Tribeca

Ammon paints storefronts from her Bushwick neighborhood and elsewhere in the city

The exhibition is on display through Jan. 24

It features reflections of buildings across the street.

“Particularly having this linear quality in this last frame really helped speak to that, oh it’s almost the grid of the music notes,” Ammon said of the reflection of a building.

The Brooklyn-based artist’s paintings are drawn from photographs taken during her daily movements through Bushwick and elsewhere. They’re part of an exhibition called Pedestrian on display at Sargent’s Daughters, a contemporary art gallery in Tribeca.

“So often it’s so easy for us to get caught up in our own story and worries, but there is something restorative about having to take a moment and see other stories around you, that can help relinquish some stress I think,” Ammon said.

Ammon’s everyday scenes include Chinese takeout places, bodegas, dry cleaners and laundromats. Some are large-scale works that are nearly to scale with the storefronts she depicts, others are smaller.

The exhibit is Ammon’s second with the gallery.

“As you can see, many of these works are extremely large so they need some breathing room, but Charis has the ability to do things both on a very large and small scale, so you can have the intimacy of a small painting or the large painting, where you are really entering fully into the world,” gallery owner Allegra LaViola said.

Ammon takes advantage of sunlight, shadows and the reflection of light from items like glass and plastic.

“Most of these, especially the daytime paintings, have the reflections from across the street, so it’s really speaking to a very active sort of labyrinth of buildings and energy happening,” Ammon said. 

Ammon’s work is on display at Sargent’s Daughters through Jan. 24.